Alex Wellerstein | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Academic background | |
| Education | UC Berkeley (B.A.) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Thesis | Knowledge and the Bomb: Nuclear Secrecy in the United States, 1939-2008 (2010) |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter Galison |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Historian |
| Sub-discipline | History of nuclear weapons, History of science and technology |
| Institutions | Stevens Institute of Technology American Institute of Physics |
Alex Wellerstein (born 5 September 1981) is a historian of science at the Stevens Institute of Technology who studies the history of nuclear weapons. He is the creator of NUKEMAP.[1][2][3]